Practitioner Track Instructions

Please Note: The submission deadline has passed, papers are no longer being accepted.

The following provides submission instructions and guidelines for the 2015 LAK Practitioner Track, which are not included in the ACM Proceedings.

All proposals must be submitted online by 11:59 PM Pago Pago Time, SSTon November 3, 2014. Due to the international nature of LAK, we will be utilizing American Samoa, Pago Pago Time, to globally standardize the deadline. Click here to find the time in your local time zone. Please check this page regularly for additional updates and details or follow the conference @lak15marist to get real-time updates. Any questions, please contact lak15@marist.edu.

Practitioner sessions should focus on innovative real world uses of learning analytics and their impact on the learner. Note, the Practitioner Track submissions are not included in the ACM Proceedings. Formats include:

Practitioner Panel (40 min. presentation/20 min. Q&A) - Panel sessions are generally best for multi-institutional implementations of learning analytics or larger projects that have been deployed at scale.

Technology Showcase (1.5 hours) - The Technology Showcase event has been designed to allow practitioners to demonstrate new and emerging learning analytics technologies that they are currently piloting or deploying in full production. The Showcase will be held during its own block of time when other conference events are not taking place.

To be considered for LAK15, an array of topics are suggested below and the committee encourages submissions for any topic or tool that would be of interest for the Learning Analytics community. However, the review committee will provide preference to those proposals that meet or exceed the following guidelines and requirements:

Deployed at at least one educational institution/organization

User feedback and/or lessons learned are shared

Requirements:

Presentation is led by a member of the educational institution/organization

Although far from exhaustive, the list below provides some suggested topics that the Program Committee is particularly interested in seeing presented and discussed at this year's conference.

Institutional Impact Presentations that focus on innovative uses of learning analytics and how they are impacting on institutions, instructors and/or learners. What are some of the successes, failures and barriers to adoption? We are particularly interested in innovative practices, lessons learned and tips for successful adoption.

Pedagogical Impact Case studies, best practices, intervention processes, pedagogical techniques and methods adopted. How has learning analytics impacted on the design of MOOC courses? What is happening with intervention strategies? How do teachers use learning analytics to improve the learning experience of students? How do students perceive and are motivated or unmotivated by their experiences?

National and International Policies and Guidelines Presentations about national or international policies and best practices and how they affect the use and implementation of learning analytics. How does national or international policies affect the growth of organizational adoption? Are policies consistent with regards to ethics and law? Should we be concerned about governmental infringements of privacy across borders? Both qualitative and quantitative studies (SNA, citation analysis, text mining etc) are welcome.

Community Collaboration and Impact Discussion of the communities currently collaborating on learning analytics and their impact on adoption and deployment. What communities are active in the learning analytics space? How are they collaborating? How are they supporting the use of learning analytics at scale?

Technologies Learning analytics technologies deployed at educational institutions or organizations. How has the technology solution been architected? What standards were used? What impact is it having? What are the future goals?

"Innovative Wild Card" Learning analytics is a dynamic field with new technologies and data sources emerging almost daily (wearable tech, MOOCs, "Internet of everything"). We welcome some crazy idea's that might just work. The idea needs to be supported by trends in the marketplace or an extrapolation of research.

Click on the "New Submission" menu tab and follow the on-screen instructions. NOTE: Please copy and paste the presenter information, title, abstract and keywords into the online form as well as including them in the PDF.